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Newsletter March, 2024

Minimum wages in 2024: Eurofound analysis

March, 2024
Newsletter August, 2023

Minimum wages in 2023: Annual review (an Eurofound research report)

August, 2023
  • On 29 June 2023, Eurofound published a new research report on Minimum Wages in 2023.
  • The report analyses gross statutory minimum wages valid in 2023 in a highly inflationary environment and maps wage levels in collective agreements for some low-paid workers in countries without a statutory minimum wage, comparing wage trends and longer-term trends in labor productivity.
  • It also examines the early impacts of the EU directive on adequate minimum wages.
Newsletter March, 2023

South Africa: New minimum wage and the earnings threshold

March, 2023
  • The Minister of Employment and Labour, effective from 1 March 2023, increased the minimum earnings threshold of ZAR 241110.59 per annum and the national minimum wage of ZAR 25.42 per hour worked. 
  • They increased, respectively, by 7.6 and 9.6 per cent. 
Newsletter February, 2023

Paying attention: A Report on Agency Work and Wages (an Adecco report)

February, 2023
  • In a  new report, Adecco, in collaboration with Ius Laboris, analysed the wages of Adecco associates from 17 countries compared to national minimum wages.
  • It shows that agency work can be a model for the flexibility workers and businesses look for in this digital age of rapid economic change, allowing agency workers to make a decent living.
  • The paper also looks into the concept of wage and wage setting more generally in these times of inflation.
Newsletter January, 2023

Indonesia: Government regulation in lieu of Law No. 2 Year 2022 replaces Job Creation Law

January, 2023

ILO Technical meeting on the future of work in the oil and gas industry: outcomes and conclusions

January, 2023
  • A technical meeting on the future of work in the oil and gas industry was held in Geneva from 28 November to 2 December 2022, as decided at its 341st Session (March 2021) by the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization (ILO). 
  • The meeting discussed opportunities and challenges for a just transition to a future of work that contributes to sustainable development in its economic, social and environmental dimensions.

Regulating minimum wage and other forms of pay for the self-employed (a Eurofound report)

January, 2023
  • On 30 November 2022, Eurofound published its research report, carried out in the context of the three-year pilot project (2021–2023), ‘Role of the minimum wage in establishing the Universal Labour Guarantee’, mandated to Eurofound by the European Commission.
  • It aims to understand how minimum wages, wage rates, tariffs, fees and other forms of pay could be fixed for specific jobs or professions in sectors with a high level of ‘vulnerable’ workers and ‘concealed’ self-employed by mapping national and sectoral approaches.
Newsletter November, 2022

Global Wage 2022-2023: the new ILO report

November, 2022
  • ILO just released the Global Wage 2022-2023 Report, one of its flagship reports on wage trends and policies at national and global levels that looks at the global economy and labour market context and the impact that the pandemic has had on wages.
  • This edition shows that, in the first half of 2022, there was the first negative global wage growth recorded since the start of the 21st Century.

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